The solar nebula origin of (486958) Arrokoth, a primordial contact binary in the Kuiper Belt.

Autor: McKinnon WB; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA. mckinnon@wustl.edu., Richardson DC; Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA., Marohnic JC; Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA., Keane JT; Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA., Grundy WM; Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, USA.; Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA., Hamilton DP; Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA., Nesvorný D; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA., Umurhan OM; NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science Division, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.; SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA., Lauer TR; National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, National Science Foundation, Tucson, AZ 85726, USA., Singer KN; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA., Stern SA; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA., Weaver HA; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA., Spencer JR; National Research Council of Canada, Victoria, BC V9E 2E7, Canada., Buie MW; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA., Moore JM; NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science Division, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA., Kavelaars JJ; National Research Council of Canada, Victoria, BC V9E 2E7, Canada., Lisse CM; Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA., Mao X; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA., Parker AH; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA., Porter SB; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA., Showalter MR; SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA., Olkin CB; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA., Cruikshank DP; NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science Division, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA., Elliott HA; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78238, USA.; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA., Gladstone GR; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX 78238, USA., Parker JW; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA., Verbiscer AJ; Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA., Young LA; Division of Space Science and Engineering, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, USA.

Publikováno v: Science (New York, N.Y.) [Science] 2020 Feb 28; Vol. 367 (6481). Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Feb 13.